арсемс

Erzya

Etymology

From Proto-Mordvinic *arśəms, possibly derived from Proto-Finno-Ugric *arwa (“price, value”). Compare Finnish arvo (“value”), arvata (“to guess”), Estonian aru (“reason”), arvama (“to believe, assume, think”), Hungarian ár (“price”).

Ultimately borrowed from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hargʰás (“price, worth, value”), whence Sanskrit अर्घ (argha, “worth, value”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /arʲsʲems/
• Rhymes: -ems
• Hyphenation: ар‧семс

Verb

арсемс • (aŕśems) (present арси, past арсесь)

1. to think, consider

   Арсян, (што) сон видечисэ.

   Aŕśan , (što) son viďečise.

   I think he is right.

   • 1865, Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Das Evangelium des Matthäus ersamordwinisch, page 83:

     Kortleź: meze tyń arsiťado Kristosdo, kiń son tśorazo? Kortlit sonenze: Davideń.

     “What do you think about the Messiah? Whose son is he?” “The son of David,” they replied.

2. to suppose
3. to wish
4. to dream

References

• B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin (1993) “арсемс”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN
• Entry #26 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
• Keresztes, László (1986) Geschichte der mordwinischen Konsonantismus II. Etymologisches Belegmaterial‎^[1], Szeged: Studia Uralo-Altaica 26.